Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Francisco. This session discussed variable annuities and how direct companies use reinsurance to mitigate death and investment risk. Variable annuities and the enhanced death benefit were addressed from the direct and reinsurance sides.

Description: Panel discussion focused on the Effective Use of Capital. Topics included: 1. Definition of capital 2. Appropriate level of capital and surplus in a life insurance company 3. Alternatives for deploying capital 4. Returns a life company should demand on invested capital 5. How much a company should charge for lending its capital in reinsurance transactions

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Utah Meeting reviews various aspects of bulk reinsurance or self-administered reinsurance treaties with respect to the nature of bulk reporting, when bulk is appropriate, actuarial certification and audits of reports, bulk reporting and universal life reinsurance and recommended control procedures. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 2

Description: The presenters will explore the long-term care insurance product and its impact on potential transactions. Discuss why the inherent risks of this product create challenges for buyers and sellers in this market.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Orlando Meeting addresses long-term care reinsurance, annuity reinsurance - dealing with the shift from variable to fixed, the global life and life reinsurance market, personal accident reinsurance and the catastrophe market. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 3PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists, including an attorney, a rating agency representative, and a state examiner, discuss regulatory and accounting issues relating to reinsurance, focusing on statutory accounting. They discuss risk transfer and other requirements, which if not met can cause the loss of reinsurance credit, how rating agencies evaluate the quality of reinsurance, what state examiners look for when reviewing reserve credits, how to perform due diligence on reinsurers, how to structure transactions to provide maximum security, and special issues associated with international reinsurance.

Description: This presentation, session number 7PD, took place at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held May 24-25 in Atlanta. Panelists discuss proposed new U.S. and Canadian requirements and ramifications for variable annuities with guaranteed minimum death, income, and maturity benefits. Ways to assess and reduce the economic risk, reserves, and capital requirements are also discussed. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 1.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Panel of experts provided an overview of expanding insurance and reinsurance markets in Mexico and South America Argentina, Brazil, and Chile and the North American offshore market. They explained the role of reinsurance in these markets, including development, growth, products, solvency/capital requirements, financial reporting, and regulatory aspects.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Hartford Spring Meeting is about the reinsurance market as seen by the ceding company and whether there has been a 'tightening' in the market.

Description: This session discussion was conducted in the format of a debate: Should regulation of reinsurance be under federal or state regulatory control?